“War is more than battles, and battles are more than violence.”

“The universe holds a destiny in store for people who will not build their own, but they seldom like it.”

“Stories shape the world.”

“If you would see a man's heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more.”

“There is wisdom out there that cant be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply wont condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.”

“The weight of history swings on choices. To understand why people make the choices they do is to understand the whole of history and most of the future.”

“It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.It's not a weakness.It's your best strength.”

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”

“Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.”

“Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.”

“But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.”

“Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.”

“The stalkers can get a little scary at times, but I guess all these things are a part of being famous.”

“All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.”